Karie Murphy is a British trade unionist and political strategist who served as the Executive Director of the Leader of the Opposition's Office under Jeremy Corbyn from 2016 to 2020.
10 Facts About Karie Murphy
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Karie Murphy worked with HIV positive patients at Ruchill Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Karie Murphy has sought nomination as a Labour Party parliamentary candidate several times.
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From 2016, Karie Murphy was executive director of the Leader's Office, under Jeremy Corbyn.
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In October 2019, Karie Murphy was seconded to Labour head office to lead the forthcoming general election campaign, which resulted in Labour's worst performance since 1935.
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The Times claimed it had spoken to some senior figures in the Labour Party who felt Karie Murphy approached the contest with a "deranged optimism" after the 2017 election, while others felt that she and McCluskey had been driven by a desire to "prove wrong" pro-EU MPs such as Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry.
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In June 2020, it was reported that Karie Murphy's peerage had been blocked by the House of Lords Appointments Commission and subsequently her name did not appear on the list of confirmed peerages in August 2020.
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In October 2021, the Labour Party named Karie Murphy as being one of the persons responsible for the deliberate leaking of thousands of items of personal data.
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In 2017, Karie Murphy revealed she had donated a kidney to save the life of a boy she did not know.
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In 2021, McCluskey wrote in his autobiography that he used funds from the Unite trade union, of which he was then leader, to pay libel lawyers to prevent the press from publishing that he and Karie Murphy were in a romantic relationship even though they were.